Inferno Quotes

• A man who has not passed through the inferno of his passions has never overcome them.

  Carl Jung

  Inspirational, Passion, Thoughtful

  Errinerungen, Tr"ume, Gedanken (Memories, Dreams, Reflections, 1962) ch. 9

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• Through me you pass into the city of woe: Through me you pass into eternal pain: Through me among the people lost for aye. Justice the founder of my fabric moved: To rear me was the task of power divine, Supremest wisdom, and primeval love. Before me things create were none, save things Eternal, and eternal I shall endure. All hope abandon, ye who enter here.

  Dante Alighieri

  Pain, Cities, People

  Dante Alighieri (1846). “The vision; or Hell, Purgatory, and Paradise, tr. by H.F. Cary. With notes”, p.18

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• The human mind has a primitive ego defense mechanism that negates all realities that produce too much stress for the brain to handle. It’s called Denial.

  Dan Brown

  Stress, Reality, Ego

  Dan Brown (2014). “Inferno: Special Illustrated Edition (Enhanced): Featuring Robert Langdon”, p.377, Knopf

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• The man who lies asleep will never waken fame, and his desire and all his life drift past him like a dream, and the traces of his memory fade from time like smoke in air, or ripples on a stream.

  Dante Alighieri

  Dream, Memories, Lying

  Dante Alighieri, John Ciardi (1954). “The inferno”, Signet

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• There is no greater sorrow than to recall happiness in times of misery.

  Dante Alighieri

  Inspirational, Happiness, Sad

  Dante Alighieri, Stanley Lombardo (2009). “Inferno”, p.26, Hackett Publishing

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• There comes a moment in history when ignorance is no longer a forgivable offense... a moment when only wisdom has the power to absolve. - Bertrand Zobrist

  Dan Brown

  Ignorance, Moments, Offense

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• It has always been this way. Death is followed by birth. To reach paradise, man must pass through inferno. - Bertrand Zobrist

  Dan Brown

  Men, Paradise, Way

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• Now, finally has the elevator arrived. The stairs was about to become a personal inferno.

  Anders Zorn

  Elevators, Stairs, Grooming

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• Hell is out of fashion - institutional hells at any rate. The populated infernos of the 20th century are more private affairs, the gaps between the bars are the sutures of one's own skull. A valid hell is one from which there is a possibility of redemption, even if this is never achieved, the dungeons of an architecture of grace whose spires point to some kind of heaven. The institutional hells of the present century are reached with one-way tickets, marked Nagasaki and Buchenwald, worlds of terminal horror even more final than the grave.

  J. G. Ballard

  Fashion, Skulls, Heaven

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• I'm just so honored that the universe chose me to be the spark that has set off a raging inferno

  Cindy Sheehan

  Sparks, Rage, Honored

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• But believe me, just because the human mind can't imagine something happening...doesn't mean it won't.

  Dan Brown

  Believe, Mean, Mind

  Dan Brown (2014). “Inferno: Special Illustrated Edition (Enhanced): Featuring Robert Langdon”, p.378, Knopf

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• The inferno of the living is not something that will be; if there is one, it is what is already here, the inferno where we live every day, that we form by being together. There are two ways to escape suffering it. The first is easy for many: accept the inferno and become such a part of it that you can no longer see it. The second is risky and demands constant vigilance and apprehension: seek and learn to recognize who and what, in the midst of inferno, are not inferno, then make them endure, give them space.

  Italo Calvino

  Two, Space, Giving

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• In a sense, I never got over Robert Lowell's History. A flawed, infinitely brilliant project I never tire of going back to. It's a modern Inferno, where Lowell plays both Dante and Virgil, guiding us through dozens of illuminating, bitter episodes from human history, all the while managing to hold a mirror to our confused hominid face as it squints at eternity and fails to grasp any of it.

  Andre Naffis-Sahely

  Confused, Mirrors, Play

  Source: www.guernicamag.com

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• New York... is a city of geometric heights, a petrified desert of grids and lattices, an inferno of greenish abstraction under a flat sky, a real Metropolis from which man is absent by his very accumulation.

  Roland Barthes

  New York, Real, Men

  Roland Barthes, Susan Sontag (1983). “Barthes: Selected Writings”

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• As Dante says in the beginning of the Inferno, 'In the midst of life's journey I found myself in a dark wood, for the right path was lost.' I think we're all doing that, in our various ways Looking for our Selves in the dark wood. I hope you find yourself on your journey.

  Christopher Vogler

  Dark, Thinking, Journey

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• Of all the inhabitants of the inferno, none but Lucifer knows that hell is hell, and the secret function of purgatory is to make of heaven an effective reality.

  Arnold Bennett

  Reality, Heaven, Secret

  Arnold Bennett (1932). “The Journals of Arnold Bennett ...: 1896-1910”, London, Cassell

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• Abandon all hope, ye who enter here.

  Dante Alighieri

  Divine Comedy, Gates Of Hell, Abandon

  Dante Alighieri (2014). “Dante's Inferno [translated]: Modern English Translation”, p.21, BookBaby

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• There is no hell, no inferno except the frenzy of living.

  Henri Barbusse

  Hell, Frenzy

  Henri Barbusse (2005). “The Inferno”, p.157, 1st World Publishing

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• Love insists the loved loves back

  Dante Alighieri

  Dante Alighieri (2007). “Inferno”, Vintage

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• A new release of Plan 9 happened in June, and at about the same time a new release of the Inferno system, which began here, was announced by Vita Nuova.

  Dennis Ritchie

  June, Release, Plans

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• One should cultivate good habits of memory, for it is capable of making existence a Paradise or an Inferno.

  Baltasar Gracian

  Memories, Paradise, Habit

  Baltasar Gracian (2006). “The Art of Worldly Wisdom”, p.106, Shambhala Publications

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• They yearn for what they fear for.

  Dante Alighieri

  Dante Alighieri, John Ciardi (1954). “The inferno”, Signet

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• Through me you go into a city of weeping; through me you go into eternal pain; through me you go amongst the lost people

  Dante Alighieri

  Pain, Cities, People

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• His characters are ravaged, beaten. They walk through infernos and emerged charred doves.

  Marisha Pessl

  Character, Dove, Walks

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• Do not be afraid; our fate Cannot be taken from us; it is a gift.

  Dante Alighieri

  Faith, Taken, Fate

  Dante Alighieri (2016). “The Divine Comedy: Paradise”, Xist Publishing

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